JSF's Commencement Address at Middlebury on Sunday

If you'd like a nice break from studying for exams, JSF's address is worth your time:

Thank you lots and lots!

Hey guys,

I just wanted to thank you all for posting your quotes. It's really helpful for studying to know the page numbers and I'm really happy that I don't have to hunt anyone down..... Anyways, thanks again and happy studying!

passage ID pages

Sorry this is a little late, but here it is.

Gatsby:

"And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy" (49).

"All right...I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool"(17).

Scarlet Letter: (I added context for people who have editions with different page numbers)

"Ah, but," interposed, more softly, a young wife, holding a child by the hand, "let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart" (chapter 2, between the paragraph that starts with "The magistrates are..." and the paragraph that starts with "What do we talk of marks and brands")

"Children have always a sympathy in the agitations of those connected with them; always, especially, a sense of any trouble or impending revolution, of whatever kind, in domestic circumstances..." (chapter 21, paragraph that starts with "Pearl was decked out with airy gaiety.")

Caroline or Change:

"For change come fast and change come slow but everything changes" (126).

"Rose Stopnick can cook. Rose Stopnick is lovely. Rose Stopnick doesn't smoke. Or play bassoon" (22-23).

ELIC:

"I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud" (235).

"If things were easy to find, they wouldn't be worth finding" (ignore that one... see email). 

Qoutes

ELIC

“Being with him made my brain quiet.  I didn’t have to invent a thing.” -12

“It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.” -208

Great Gatsby

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money of their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
-179

Daisy, on her newborn girl: "All right...I'm glad it's a girl. And I
hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool" -21

Scarlet

“Wondrous strength and generosity of a woman's heart! She will not speak!” -49

"But she named the infant 'Pearl,' as being of great price- purchased with all she had- her mother's only pleasure."-75

Caroline or change

“You don’t know me, I’m a mom!” nuff said

study group

Louisa and I were talking at graduation today and we thought it might be a good idea to get together for a small study group to compare quote id's on Sunday or Monday before the exam. We could meet at the  

bookstore, library, Starbucks, or my house in West Hartford if anyone is interested. It might be good to have each other double check our ideas and/or add to them. Comment if you're interested:)

-Becca

Quotes

Scarlet Letter

·        “In a moment, however, wisely judging that one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another, she took the baby on her arm, and, with a burning blush, and yet a haughty smile, and a glance that would not be abashed, looked around at her townspeople and neighbours. On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A” (47).

·        “Pearl, seeing the rose-bushes, began to cry for a red rose, and would not be pacified” (96).

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

·        “If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent” (30).

·        “…the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river,  I was the tree, the world was the river” (16).

Caroline, or Change

·        “Nothing happens under ground in Louisiana. Cept in this house, cept here, cept here…This house got a basement” (12).

·        “From now on if you find change in his pockets, when you do the washing, just keep it, just keep it, if he leaves it, it’s yours” (49).

The Great Gatsby

·        “But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg” (23).

·        “But there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding. He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room” (89).

More Quotes

Caroline or Change

1.)   pg. 92

CAROLINE

You can’t talk to folk like that.

EMMIE

Talk to white folk what you mean.

CAROLINE

Lord I raised a spoiled brat.

They your boss! You ain’t a queen!

Gonna get yourself knocked flat,

mouth off round white folk like that.

2.)   pg. 104

NOAH

CAROLINE!

GIVE IT BACK!

CAROLINE!

I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!

There’s a bomb!

President Johnson has built a bomb

special made to kill all Negroes!

I hate you, hate you, kill al Negroes! Really! For

                        true!

I hope he drops his bomb on you!

The Scarlet Letter

1.)   pg. 143

“And, since Satan saw fit to steal it, your reverence must needs handle him without gloves, henceforward,” remarked the old sexton, grimly smiling. “But did your reverence hear of the portent that was seen last night? A great red letter in the sky,--the letter A,--which we interpret to stand for Angel. For, as our good Governor Winthrop was made an angel this past night, it was doubtless held fit that there should be some notice thereof!”

2.)   pg. 130

“The minister well knew—subtle, but remorseful hypocrite that he was!—the light in which his vague confession would be viewed. He had striven to put a cheat upon himself by making the avowal of a guilty conscience, but had gained only one other sin, and a self-acknowledged shame, without the momentary relief of being self-deceived. He had spoken the very truth, and transformed it into the veriest falsehood. And yet, by the constitution of his nature, he loved the truth, and loathed the lie, as few men ever did. Therefore, above all things else, he loathed his miserable self!”

The Great Gatsby

1.)   pg. 48

“He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”

2.)   pg. 180

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning—
   

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

1.)   pg. 165

“Then, out of nowhere, a flock of birds flew by the window, extremely fast and incredibly close. Maybe twenty of them. Maybe more. But they also seemed like just one bird, because somehow they all knew exactly what to do. Mr. Black grabbed at his ears and made a bunch of weird sounds. He start crying—not out of happiness, I could tell, but not out of sadness, either.”

2.)   pg. 216

“When your mother found me in the bakery on Broadway, I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I’d been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I’d be there with you now instead of here…Maybe, but I couldn’t do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me.”